Life and Letters of Zachary Macaulay (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from Life and Letters of Zachary Macaulay Scorn Thy grace, Thy power defy That poor rebel, Lord, was I. I am indeed a signal monument of God's long-suffering and tender mercy. What shall I render to Him for all His benefits? Soon after I reached the age of fourteen, I became in a great measure my own master, by being removed from the control of my father and mother, and placed in a merchant's counting house in Glasgow. This was a line of life which I entered upon with great regret, for I had at that time a strong passion for literature; but I acquiesced readily in my father's determina tion, from perceiving that his stipend could not well afford the expense of a literary education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
